As of publication, it’s just after 7 a.m. Dec. 31, 2024, in Los Angeles, but it’s already 2025 in one part of the world. ...

Rugby League is a fast-moving, sometimes physically brutal game born in the working-class communities of northern England.

United States satellites spotted a fleet of Chinese warships transiting a major waterway in the Western Pacific ... around the island to target the entire first island chain for the first time.

Thousands of travelers flock to well-known French Polynesian destinations like Bora Bora and Tahiti, where Instagrammable overwater bungalows and honeymoon-worthy resorts reign supreme. But very few ...

Eruptions from an undersea volcano have apparently created an islet in the Ogasawara island chain more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, officials said. The Maritime Self ...

Through a multi-disciplinary effort, recently enhanced by the contributions of modern Polynesians eager to experience their past, a picture is emerging of the development of a seafaring culture ...

China must break out of this island chain so that its blue water navy can have unfettered access to the Pacific and beyond. In that context, China is keenly interested in the strength of those ...

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...

For months, experts were at a loss as to what caused the tsunami observed over a wide stretch of the Pacific Ocean ... a year near Torishima island in the Izu island chain south of Tokyo.